Re: Discussion: Main Content Layout Best Practices

[Anil Patel]

I think what David is suggesting is something like this 
http://www.wildbit.com/demos/modalbox/

Regards
Anil Patel


On May 23, 2008, at 1:57 PM, David E Jones wrote:

-David


On May 23, 2008, at 11:55 AM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:

I didn't say open a new window, I said either expand a hidden area or popup using JavaScript within the window (ie over top of the list behind it).

IMHO, we should avoid to overuse popping as opening a new window is time consuming (especially in Firefox). This is currently a major inconvenience for Lookups and Calendar for instance

Jacques

From: "David E Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

-David


On May 22, 2008, at 11:38 PM, Scott Gray wrote:

Since we're entering the world of using more javascript in the browser, why not have the add form on the top but hidden by default with and Add button of some sort that would cause the form to be shown? We could even make it fancy and popup over top of the list form and have it go away after submission with an update of the list behind it... without any page loads even.

I would agree with that but personally I would prefer to see them on completely different pages. If I wanted to be able to refer back to the list while adding I would ctrl+click and then ctrl+tab to flick back and forth, that's what makes tabbed browsers so handy. One of the problems with having them on the same page is that any errors after adding would be displayed before the list while the add form would be way down the bottom.

Regards
Scott

2008/5/23 David E Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

On May 22, 2008, at 9:11 AM, Adrian Crum wrote:

2) If a screen has a list and add form, what should be the order of these

forms (I have seen in your recent work that add form should come on top

and
I completely
agree with this).

I believe the form should be on top of the list. Otherwise, as you add items to the list, the form is scrolled off the bottom of the screen.

the add form?


time to see it... that's a pain.

-David

The main question is: what is going to be used more? Will it be the list or If in most cases it will be the list, and if you have to scroll down every

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